0500102008

May 01, 2008 ; Thursday

For all of us know today is holiday,Labor Day.But instead of being with my family we was required to report today to work,actually upto Sunday,for the server migration.

Just a little background,our production server was almost 10years old and will be replace by a new one.The server will be now own by ICS team (Information and Communication Services).They'll be the one who's responsible for the production server once it was migrated.

Anyway,we are required to be at the plant at A shift (6am-2pm) original plan was the whole team will be there at A-shift,then one of my groupmate and me will be staying until B-shift (2pm-10pm) and another pair to cover C-shift (10pm-6am).But yesterday afternoon the plan was changed,From that 2-shifts schedule to 24hrs straight of works for 3 days.This is,according to our boss,due to time constraits.Then this morning we learned that the other group is not yet done in copying the old server,so we have nothing to do,until they are done.And our boss told us that we might be back to the original plan.And so we did.

Nothing to do until they are done in copying,yeah.But the day won't end with that reason.There are some major issues that are in line with this activity,one of it is the PCNFS testers,they are running in DOS.That's what we did almost the whole day,solving the PCNFS issue.We back-up the system and restore it to another HDD so that we will be safe if we failed.Using the new HDD we try to edit some configuration files such as network.bat , drives.bast and hosts.And we did it!horray!What we need now is for the product engineer to verify the settings,if he can load the program and go on with the testing.

We even try to log in at some UNIX based testers.Some log in are okay but some are not due to their mounting/home directories.

We go home at 10pm and will be back tommorow morning,6am.